Today marks the completion of the second week since I’ve gone back to software engineering. In all honesty, it’s been a tough transition. There are so many technologies to catch up on since I was last a programmer. I find myself googling pretty much every new concept I see, not understanding the answer, then googling further until I can recurse back to the top. Java code looks unfamiliar to me. Or perhaps the code I was writing in the past was just unsophisticated and didn’t follow good design patterns. But it was easier to understand, or so it seems.
I know starting this blog I stated all my grand ambitions to change law with software. So far, nothing has materialized. I think I’m just lazy and need to get started building something. However, it has been a pretty good few weeks so far. Simply absorbing new concepts has been invaluable. The good and bad of my startup is that we are so short-staffed that I have to have my hands in a little bit of everything. At least I’m hoping that doing so will give me some quick on-the-job training that will help make me more employable in the future. Here’s to hitting the ground running …
